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by Alan Macleod  Part 2 - From Viral Criticism to Criminal Charges   A sticker about Potter, based on a red. media graphic, was spotted in Berlin. The sticker took the outlet’s criticism of him, and plastered the phrase, “The German Hurensohn” — “The German Son of a Bitch” —  over the top. That sticker is the centerpiece of the prosecution’s allegation of a coordinated “hate campaign” against Potter led by red. media . Potter claims that he has suffered harassment and threats to his life, and some have tried to link this back to red. media’s graphic. The accusations provoked a storm of articles in German media, all supportive of Potter. Many echoed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s claims that red. media is a Russian government-controlled influence operation. Dogru denies these allegations, although he was previously a key part of Red Fish , a platform financed by Ruptly, a Germany-based outlet partially funded by the Russian state-controlled network, RT. After t...

Glenn Greenwald                                  This is the predominant ideology in Israel. The military is dispatched to protect [settlers] as they steal Palestinian houses and land. And they have a Jewish supremacist ideology, which they believe entitles them to take the land of the people they consider inferior. 

Janta Ka Reporter   On day two of the hearing at the International Court of Justice, South Africa reminded the world court of its responsibilities to stop the Israeli excesses in Gaza immediately. Lawyers representing South Africa highlighted the recent atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza. The ICJ on Monday began five-day proceedings following a request by the UN General Assembly to rule on Israel's breaches of international law and attacks on UN facilities.  

The Jimmy Dore Show   The Grayzone recently published a scoop revealing that Facebook, also known as Meta, employs more than 100 former Israeli spies or members of the Israel Defense Force. If you suspect that, as a result, Facebook tends to favor content friendly to Israel and limit content unfavorable to the Jewish state, well, you’re probably right! Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss some of the positions held at Facebook by former Israeli spies and how that may affect the company’s policies. 

DiEM25   How did the German left end up defending genocide, occupation, militarism, and apartheid — all in the name of antifascism? In this hard-hitting follow-up episode, hosted by Johannes Fehr of MERA25 Germany, the twisted rise of the Anti-Deutsche (Anti-German) ideology — a fringe but powerful current within the German left that unconditionally backs Israel’s violence and silences any critique of its apartheid policies, labeling it as antisemitism, is exposed. What began as an attempt to confront Germany's Nazi past has become a tool to suppress solidarity with Palestinians and crush true internationalist resistance. Yuval Gal Cohen, an Israeli anti-Zionist activist from Jewish-Israeli Dissent, JID Leipzig, and Udi Raz, a Jewish activist from Jewish Voice for Just Peace in the Middle East, break down how memory politics and imperial alliances have corrupted antifascism, leaving no room for dissent. This isn't just about Germany — it’s about the hollowing out of the left ac...

The Jimmy Dore Show   Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin recently stalked the Senate halls to confront Senators over their vote to continue funding weapons shipments to Israel that will be used to perpetuate genocide in Gaza. Most of the elected officials fled from Benjamin and her questions but Arkansas’s Tom Cotton stopped to inaccurately accuse Code Pink of being funded by the Chinese Communist Party as if that somehow washes away all the blood on his hands. Guest host Aaron Maté and Jimmy Dore Show producer Malcolm Fleschner discuss the cardio benefits these Senators get from all the running away from their responsibilities they are engaging in over Gaza. 

In recent years, the BRICS group—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—has risen as a formidable player in global affairs, positioning itself as an alternative to the Western-dominated geopolitical order   by Kungu Al-Mahadi Adam   Part 1 In recent years, the BRICS group—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—has risen as a formidable player in global affairs, positioning itself as an alternative to the Western-dominated geopolitical order led by the United States. With Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. President, tensions between the U.S. and BRICS have intensified. Trump has openly criticized BRICS, threatening tariffs and economic measures if these nations pursue initiatives like a new currency to challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar.  This hostility underscores the U.S. perception of BRICS as a threat, particularly as a source of geopolitical power for developing countries, including those in Africa. In this context, African nations have a comp...

Geopolitical Economy Report   The US military is preparing for war on China, and has missile systems in the Philippines aimed at major Chinese cities. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the USA is making "Japan into a war-fighting headquarters". Ben Norton discusses the extremely aggressive policies of Trump, Biden, and beyond.   Related: WikiLeaks reveals what else is behind US imperialists' obsessive hostility against China

The Jimmy Dore Show   Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who is also a convicted terrorist and Jewish supremacist, has been touring the US, speaking on college campuses and meeting with political groups, and he even traveled to Mar-a-Lago. His visit has been met with widespread protests, however. Ben Gvir was confronted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in New Haven, Connecticut, following a speech he gave at Shabtai, a private Jewish society at Yale that’s not officially affiliated with the university. Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss how Ben-Gvir’s security detail was able to assault protesters with impunity — and that in fact police officers approach an assaulted protester to demand that he step away from Ben-Gvir’s group.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reports a growing number of burn victims in the Gaza Strip as a result of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war amid poor health care under the total siege on the territory. The MSF warned that 70 percent of the victims have been children. “Since May 2024, MSF teams working in Nasser Hospital have provided over 1,000 surgical operations to burn patients, 70 percent of which have been children, most under the age of five,” the Geneva-based aid organization said in a statement on Friday. “Many people have extensive burns covering large portions of their bodies – some people have as much as 40 percent of their total body surface burned,” due to “bomb explosions and improvised cooking methods.” “As the Israeli authorities maintain the siege on Gaza, blocking access to basic aid, medical and life-saving supplies, many patients are left to endure excruciating pain with limited or no relief,” it added. MSF noted that its “teams have seen an increase in the number of ...

by Alan Macleod  Part 1   Amid a crackdown on pro-Palestine voices in Germany, a journalist regularly attacked as a Russian operative is facing up to three years in prison for defamation of an Israel-based journalist. Hüseyin Dogru, founder of red. media , has been charged with defamation for actions relating to a spat with Nicholas Potter, a German state-funded reporter working for the Israeli outlet, The Jerusalem Post . In December, Potter, a self-styled counter-extremism expert, published a lengthy exposé in The Jerusalem Post , claiming that red. media , MintPress News , and The Grayzone were part of a network of far-left outlets promoting extremism and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. Worse still, he strongly insinuated that all three were promoted and funded by the governments of Russia, Syria, and Iran.   The charges are false (see MintPress ’ rebuttal here ), and are particularly ironic, coming as they do from a journalist who is funded by the German Foreign Of...

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Al Jazeera English   The greenback has depreciated against other major currencies since Donald Trump's inauguration in January. Investors are worried that Trump's tariffs could cause a recession in the United States, and they have rushed to the exit. Is the president bothered? Trump appears to be of two minds when it comes to his nation's currency. He wants a dominant dollar because it gives the US geopolitical leverage. But, he says, a weaker greenback spurs US manufacturing. Some economists say the president could devalue the dollar. His team has backed the idea of a "Mar-a-Lago Accord" to weaken it. BRICS countries are also decreasing their reliance on the dollar.    Related: Trump's tariffs: A unique opportunity for BRICS and the Global South to fully escape from dollar tyranny

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lSRAEL BOMBED A SCHOOL THIS NIGHT BURNING THE TENTS INSIDE IT. KILLING MANY PALESTINIANS WHILE SLEEPING. pic.twitter.com/M6y395ylhG — Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸 (@MuhammadSmiry) April 23, 2025

Danny Haiphong   China just fired a massive shot at Trump's trade war and it looks like he is tapping out. Geopolitical analysts Warwick Powell, Carl Zha and KJ Noh expose the brutal impact of China's retaliation to Trump's trade war currently changing everything for the US dollar and its economic dominance. China has won but most can't see it.      Related:   Trump's tariffs: A unique opportunity for BRICS and the Global South to fully escape from dollar tyranny

The Grayzone   The Grayzone 's Max Blumenthal interviews Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti, senior political officer and spokesman for Ansar Allah (the Houthi movement), on Yemen's direct confrontation with a US military machine which is hellbent on destroying its ability to resist Israel. In this third conversation between The Grayzone and Bukhaiti, the Ansar Allah spokesman explains why he believes his movement's war with the US-Israeli axis is unlike any conflict that preceded it, and why he believes Yemen is engaged in a righteous battle despite the terrible toll its civilians have faced. This interview was translated by Hekmat Aboukhater.  

Geopolitical Economy Report   Donald Trump's tariffs are benefiting rich elites at the expense of the majority of the population, argues economist Michael Hudson. He explains how the US trade war on China is isolating the United States and encouraging countries to seek alternatives. Ben Norton hosts the interview.     Related:   Trump's tariffs: A unique opportunity for BRICS and the Global South to fully escape from dollar tyranny

To all the Congressmen & women who keep sending billions for Israel's bombs and bullets, this is what you're paying for. How do you sleep at night? https://t.co/C3MLcmzitC — Dr. Jill Stein🌻 (@DrJillStein) April 19, 2025

The Jimmy Dore Show   What Israel is doing in Gaza — and likely has planned for the West Bank and parts of Lebanon and Syria as well — echoes the way the Nazis attacked Jews, drove others from their homes and conducted wholesale ethnic cleansing in the leadup to and during World War II. According to journalist and author Chris Hedges, this is Israel’s own Liebensraum, and the United States is actively supporting it. Jimmy Dore and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the Nazis’ Liebensraum and its parallels in Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.

The New Arab   As Israel’s war on Gaza enters its 19th month, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is sounding the alarm louder than ever: the world is watching a live genocide — and doing nothing to stop it. In an exclusive interview with The New Arab , Albanese describes the devastation in Gaza as unparalleled since WWII. Entire neighbourhoods lie in ruins, tens of thousands are dead, and 91% of Gaza’s population is at risk of malnutrition. Over 60,000 children show signs of cognitive impairment due to starvation.  “This is not just war. This is genocide in real time,” she says. “What we are seeing now is the destruction of a people who refuse to leave.” Despite UN mandates and international law, Albanese says the global system is paralysed, and governments, corporations, and even universities are complicit. “If Palestine were a crime scene, it would bear all our fingerprints.”

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Caitlin Johnstone   We do not live in a free society that is guided by truth and morality. We live under the most murderous and tyrannical power structure on the face of this planet. And we should distrust everything about it. That's what they're showing us with the Gaza holocaust. More and more people are opening their eyes to it every day.      Related:   Time for the anti-imperialist powers to take the keys of the planet from the declining and morally bankrupt West

by Nate Bear   Part 3 - Cruel Britannia   The UK is moving ahead with large welfare cuts for disabled people, including those with cancer. On TV the other day, the UK’s health secretary Wes Streeting said that people with cancer should be in work, not at home resting. Alongside this, the government has said that to cut youth employment it will push young people to join the army. This, of course, is in the context of a massive expenditure on military weapons in the face of the Russian bogeyman.   What’s happening in the UK under a nominally centre-left Labour government is a good reminder that there is never a lesser evil if your leaders are neoliberals. Balancing the books on the backs of the poorest and most vulnerable in society is the north star of all neoliberals, whether they call themselves centrists, left wing or right wing. Cruelty is the policy and the point.    Yet the last few years have also been a good reminder that everything is a choice. Cov...

Empire Watch   How does the professional managerial class (PMC) uphold the US empire? 🌍 ‪   Professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine and author of Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class , Catherine Liu @CLiuAnon‬, joins Ileana Chan for episode 27 of Global Majority for Peace.  In this episode, Catherine unpacks the PMC’s role in supporting US-led imperialism, from its cultural dominance to its complicity in the global neoliberal agenda. She delves into class dynamics, the myths of meritocracy, and how these systems perpetuate inequality and imperialist policies.  From the US’s interventions in the Global South to its foreign policy strategies in China and Russia, this conversation sheds light on how the PMC manufactures consent for the neoliberal and anti-working-class agenda.

globinfo freexchange   Behind the ridiculously cartoonish latest spot of the EU that gives "instructions" to the European citizens on how to deal with a major crisis during the first hours, lies a secret desire.    The deranged euroclowns of the crypto-fascist extreme center , are trying to build up a condition of consent inside the minds of Europeans, which is related to their biggest wet dream: an autonomous imperialist European army. The idea was not born suddenly because of Trump's hostile attitude against his own allies. From the early 50s, pan-European networks of neo-Nazis were created. In May 1951, the European Social Movement (MSE) was founded in Malmö, Sweden. Essentially, it was about projecting the ideology of the German SRP on a pan-European level. The MSE, which would remain active until the 1980s, proclaimed the need for Europe to emancipate itself from the divisive tutelage of the USA and the USSR, called for the defense of the “European race” against th...

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The Jimmy Dore Show   President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Monday that the United States and Iran were poised to begin “direct talks” on Tehran’s nuclear program, but Iran’s foreign minister said the discussions in Oman would be “indirect”. Israel’s shadow looms large over the talks. An Iranian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said over the weekend there was possibly a window of around two months to reach a deal, citing worries that Iran’s longtime foe Israel might launch its own attack if talks took longer.   Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who has shown little support for US negotiations with Iran, said if diplomacy could prevent Tehran from ever getting nuclear weapons “in a full way, the way it was done in Libya, I think that would be a good thing.” Jimmy Dore and guest host Aaron Maté discuss why Iran might want to avoid the fate that befell Libya after Gaddafi dismantled his country’s nuclear weapons program.

Geopolitical Economy Report   US President Donald Trump wants to use tariffs as part of a plan to save the dominance of the dollar as the global reserve currency. His top economic advisor Stephen Miran outlined the Trump administration's strategy to force other countries to pay the USA to maintain its imperial financial and military order. Ben Norton explains the idea behind the hypothetical "Mar-a-Lago Accord".      Related:   Trump's tariffs: A unique opportunity for BRICS and the Global South to fully escape from dollar tyranny

The Jimmy Dore Show   The US military has used $200 million in munitions since it restarted its campaign against Yemen over two weeks ago – the success of which has been “limited,” according to a 4 April report by the New York Times . The report comes as US President Donald Trump has been boasting about the success of Washington’s campaign against the Ansarallah resistance movement, which he says has been “decimated.”   “In closed briefings in recent days, Pentagon officials have acknowledged that there has been only limited success in destroying the Houthis’ vast, largely underground arsenal of missiles, drones and launchers,” anonymous congressional aides and officials told NYT. Guest host Aaron Maté and Americans’ comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the soon-to-be $1 billion price tag for the attacks on Yemen, and the possible ground invasion Trump recently hinted at.

BreakThrough News   Rania Khalek hosts a special live episode of Dispatches with Ali Abunimah, executive director of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine . They dive into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the global silence enabling it, and why this brutal new phase was always Zionism’s endgame. From U.S.-funded fascism abroad to rising repression at home, nothing is off the table.  

by Alan Macleod  Part 3 - A Fascist Paramilitary – But Jewish   Betar traces its origins back over 100 years. The group was founded by early Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky as a far-right paramilitary force, one that explicitly stood against the leftist Jewish groups who dominated at a time when “Jewish” and “socialist” were seen by many as virtually synonymous. Jabotinsky believed that establishing a state in Palestine would require the creation of what he called a “new Jew,” one that would be willing to fight and die for Zionism. To this end, Betar was established as a fighting organization and received generous funding from conservative benefactors. Jabotinsky instructed members to swear an oath to the unborn Israel: “I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.” The creation of such a state, therefore, would require the mass extermination or expulsion of the region’s native inhabitants. Betar’s formal name was B...

The professor at the center of the Columbia University deportation scandal is a former Israeli intelligence official, MintPress News can reveal. Mahmoud Khalil, a recent graduate of the university’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), was abducted by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Saturday for his role in organizing protests last year against Israel’s attack on Gaza. Khalil’s dean, Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo, head of the School of International and Public Affairs, is a former Israeli military intelligence officer and official at Israel’s Mission to the United Nations. Yarhi-Milo played a significant role in drumming up public concern about a supposed wave of intolerable anti-Semitism sweeping over the campus, thereby laying the groundwork for the extensive crackdown on civil liberties that has followed the protests.   by Alan Macleod   Part 4 - Defending Israel, Destroying Free Speech Longtime readers of MintPress News will be less surprised than many to ...

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by Nate Bear   Part 2 - The genocide resumes   The day before the Wiz deal, Israel resumed its genocide of Gaza with an unhinged bloodthirsty rampage, the deadliest twenty-four hours in the last nearly eighteen months of genocide. A high bar had been set, and it was cleared. They attacked at night, itself an act of utter cowardice and sadism, and slaughtered hundreds as they slept in tents. In tents. Close to one hundred babies and young children were killed. The overall death toll exceeds 400 and is rising. As expected, there is not a flicker of condemnation from world leaders, many of whom are arming Israel with the weapons and intelligence it needs for genocide. The British air force spent the ceasefire period gathering intelligence on Palestinians and feeding it to Israel so they could restart the mass murder efficiently.  The genocide is the end of the west. It destroys any claim to moral superiority over Russia, China, Iran or any of the officially designated bad g...

Al Jazeera English   A new video has emerged, revealing the details of an Israeli attack that killed 15 medics, including eight from the Palestine Red Crescent. The footage was discovered on a cellphone of one of the victims. Israel says it's still investigating the incident, but the video contradicts the official version of the event given so far by the Israeli army. 

globinfo freexchange   Does Trump know what he is doing? Well, yes and no. While many interpretate his latest move, mostly as an attempt to halt China, his main goal is to give the final blow to the neoliberal order on behalf of his oligarchs .  From this perspective, Trump's unprecedented decision to decide mass tariffs against almost everyone, was an act of strategic hit against the global free market neoliberalism, with the financial capital  at its top. And that's because this dominant-for-almost-half-century system, identifies restrictions and protectionism as major threats against its own existence. In other words, Trump acted as a commander of the capitalist faction that wants to beat its neoliberal rivals and put itself in charge, through a new transformation of capitalism into a 21st century corporate feudalism.   Concerning China, Trump's move may have some negative impact on its economy for a while, since China has chosen to partially play by the rule...

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🚨To whom who concerned 🚨 Khan Yunis and Rafah are now burning. — Palestine Daily News ✌️🇵🇸✌️ (@Palestinedaily1) April 2, 2025 Khan Yunis and Rafah are now burning. For those interested — Muhammad in Gaza🇵🇸 (@7MohammedKhaled) April 2, 2025

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globinfo freexchange  In 1957, BBC conducted a very interesting experiment. The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama , purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family "spaghetti tree". At the time spaghetti was relatively little known in the UK, so that many Britons were unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water; a number of viewers afterwards contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own spaghetti trees. Decades later, CNN called this broadcast " the biggest hoax that any reputable news establishment ever pulled ". This "innocent" farce showed dramatically the unimaginable power of TV and the mainstream media to shape massively the minds of millions. Earlier, Freud's young nephew, Edward Bernays, had set the foundations of modern propaganda. It is worth to add that the te...

by Alan Macleod  Part 2 - Carrying Out Terror, Supporting Genocide Betar U.S. describes itself as a “loud, proud, aggressive and unapologetically Zionist” movement “dedicated to defending Israel’s legitimacy and strengthening the Jewish connection to the land of Israel.” This includes “taking action where others won’t” – a rather ominous phrase, considering the aggressive activities of the Jewish organizations it derides as “passive” and weak. Last week, the group appeared to openly attempt to organize an assassination attempt on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories. “Join us to give Francesca a [pager emoji] in London on Tuesday,” it posted online, an apparent reference to the September pager attack on  Lebanon carried out by the Israeli military. The incident killed dozens of people and injured thousands more civilians, and was widely condemned – even by former CIA Director Leon Panetta – as an act of international...